polythene
Meaning of polythene
- a tough, light flexible synthetic resin made by polymerizing ethylene, chiefly used for plastic bags, food containers, and other packaging.
strips of black polythene
a polythene bag
1930s: contraction of polyethylene.
Information about polythene
- It is a name.
- The plural form of polythene is: polythenes.
- Languages in which polythene is used:
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Hyphenation of polythene
poly-thene
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- polythene is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
polythene synonyms
Meaning polyethylene:
Anagrams of polythene
Words that rhyme with polythene
Antiochene, achene, apofenchene, fenchene, macrauchene, schene, Asantehene, Daphene, Doxaphene, Phene, Polychlorocamphene, Prophene, Serophene, Toxaphene, acetothiophene, acetylbenzothiophene, acetyldibenzothiophene, acetylhydrazinylthiophene, acetylthiophene, allylthiophene, amidinothiophene, aminomethylthiophene, aminotetrahydrothiophene, aminothiophene, aminoxytriphene, amorphene, amotriphene, anilinothiophene, anthrathiophene, benzenesulfonylthiophene, benzoselenophene, benzothiophene, benzoylthiophene, benzylthiophene, bicarphene, bisbutylthiophene, bisethylthiophene, bisisopropylthiophene, bismethylthiophene, bispentylthiophene, bispropylthiophene, bithiophene, boronothiophene, bromobenzothiophene, bromochlorothiophene, bromodibenzothiophene, bromofluorothiophene, bromoiodothiophene, bromoselenophene, bromotetrahydrothiophene